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    The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor
    The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor
    The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor
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    The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor

    By Richard O Jones

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    Before he could bleed out, his family discovered the bloody, bloody scene, and rescued the beleaguered coal man. He said his only regret is that he didn't kill his meddling mother-in-law, too. This "novelette" length true crime story details the family quarrel that led to the gruesome crime and the delivery of turn-of-the-century justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard O Jones
    Release dateJul 8, 2014
    ISBN9781310444197
    The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor
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    Richard O Jones

    About Richard O Jones After 25 years writing the first draft of history as a writer and editor for his hometown newspaper, the Hamilton Journal-News, Richard O Jones left the grind of daily journalism in the fall of 2013 for a life of true crime. He is the author of two books on the History Press imprint, Cincinnati’s Savage Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal (October, 2014) and The First Celebrity Serial Killer: Confessions of the Strangler Alfred Knapp (May, 2015). In 2016, he began a twice-weekly podcast "True Crime Historian" (www.truecrimehistorian.com) where he tells stories of the scoundrels, scandals and scourges of the past through newspaper accounts in the golden age of yellow journalism. He created the Two-Dollar Terror series of novella-length ebooks. Mr. Jones, a creative writing graduate of Miami University, Ohio, spent most of his career as an arts journalist and has won numerous awards for his reviews and profiles. In 2004, he was named a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre and Musical Theatre program at the Annenberg School of Journalism. The Ohio Associated Press named him Feature Writer of the Year in 2011. Since leaving the newspaper world, Mr. Jones has become an active member of his local history community as a board member of the Butler County Historical Society, a member of the History Speakers Bureau and a regular presenter at Miami University in a program titled “Yesterday’s News.” The Michael J. Colligan History Project of Miami University presented Mr. Jones with a Special Recognition for Contributions to Public History for his coverage of the Centennial Commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913. Photo by Sandra M. Orlett

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      The Sleepwalking Slasher - Richard O Jones

      The Sleepwalking Slasher:

      The True Story of Samuel J. Keelor

      By Richard O Jones

      A Two-Dollar Terror

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Richard O Jones

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook dealer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      Contents:

      The Geiger Case

      ‘Hornpipe’

      A Family Quarrel

      A Bloody, Bloody Scene

      Details Unfold

      Coroner’s Inquest

      Keelor’s Confession

      Awaiting Trial

      Trial

      Verdict

      Sources

      About the Author

      The Geiger Case

      At 10:30 p.m. Feb. 12, 1903, Cincinnati man Fred Geiger rushed to the house of his Linn Street neighbor George Murray, frantically crying out that his wife had been murdered.

      Murray grabbed a coat and went back to his neighbor’s house with him, noting that Geiger was only wearing a light sweater despite the chilly weather.

      As they went in through the front door, Geiger said, Look at the condition of the house, as if to call particular attention to its ransacked state. Murray went into the kitchen and saw the naked body of Ada Geiger, 25, her head and torso crammed into a sink, her hips and legs on the drying board. Her skull was crushed and her body bruised in several places.

      Murray sounded the alarm for the police and went back to find Geiger, now in his overcoat and hat, sitting on his side steps holding his 4-year-old son Stephen. Fred’s hands were covered with blood, which he said came from the body of his wife when he came home to find her body in the sink.

      Police took little stock in Fred’s story about burglars entering the house and committing the foul deed because nothing was missing. Even Ada’s jewelry and gold watch were left intact. So they arrested Fred Geiger and sent the boy to his grandmother’s house on Elm Street.

      Safely in the arms of his grandmother, the boy told police that his father had struck his mother with his fist and with scissors, and later told the same story from the lap of a police inspector while his father sat across from them. Ada Geiger had not only been hit with scissors, however, but had been stabbed numerous times with a pair from her sewing kit.

      The following Saturday, the Cincinnati Enquirer ran a sensational story on the incident, taking up nearly a page and describing in lurid detail the finding of the body and the dramatic confrontation in the police chief’s office between the accusing child and the denying father, who claimed that someone put the boy up to telling the story. The newspaper interviewed many people, however, who told about Fred Geiger’s bad temper and jealous nature.

      With the lurid story on everyone’s lips, it would be easy to imagine jealous, bad-tempered husbands all over Greater Cincinnati threatening to go Geiger on their hapless wives,

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